Authors: David Pollard (Translator), David E. Pollard
ISBN-13: 9780231121187, ISBN-10: 0231121180
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: March 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)
David Pollard is a veteran scholar of sinology and one of the most respected interpreters and translators of the Chinese essay. He was previously professor of Chinese at the University of London and professor of translation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he coedited Renditions, the Chinese-English translation journal, with his wife, Eva Hung.
Veteran sinologist David Pollard has selected and translated the best and most representative examples of Chinese prose writing from the third century to the contemporary period. Though spanning the past 1,800 years, the bulk of the selections are from the twentieth century and range from early masters, such as Lu Xun, to the major writers of the middle generation, such as Ye Chengtao and Liang Yuchun.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Skeleton Chronology | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
To Lead out the Army | 25 | |
Requiem for Myself | 28 | |
Address to the Crocodiles of Chaozhou | ||
Goodbye to Penury | 31 | |
The Whip Vendor | ||
My First Excursion to West Mountain | ||
The Small Rock Pool West of the Hillock | 38 | |
A Monument to Rustic Temples | 44 | |
The Old Toper's Pavilion | 48 | |
The Terrace over the Void | ||
Master Table Mountain | ||
Red Cliff: One | ||
Inscription for the Temple of Han Yu at Chaozhou | 52 | |
The Pavilion of Elation | 64 | |
The Mosquito Dialogue | 67 | |
My Mother: A Brief Life | ||
The Xiangji Studio | 71 | |
Tiger Hill | ||
The Rewards of Stupidity | 78 | |
The Full Moon Festival at the West Lake | ||
Wang Yuesheng | ||
Liu Jingting: Storyteller | ||
The Jades of Yangzhou | 84 | |
Pleasant Diversions: Judging Beauty | ||
Pleasant Diversions: Accomplishments | ||
Pleasant Diversions: Literacy | ||
Pleasant Diversions: Clothes | 93 | |
Life in Prison | 100 | |
Thoughts on Master Huang's Book Borrowing | 106 | |
Three Summer Pests | ||
The Evolution of the Male Sex | ||
Ah Jin | ||
Confucius in Modern China | 108 | |
Relentless Rain | ||
Reading in the Lavatory | ||
On 'Passing the Itch' | ||
The Ageing of Ghosts | ||
In Praise of Mutes | 129 | |
The Ornamental Iron Mountain | ||
Winter at White Horse Lake | 160 | |
Three Kinds of Boat | ||
My Own Patch of Green | ||
Intellectuals | 166 | |
Eating Melon Seeds | ||
Autumn | ||
Bombs in Yishan | 188 | |
Village School and Academy | ||
The Winter Scene in Jiangnan | 206 | |
The View from the Rear | ||
Traces of Wenzhou | ||
The Lotus Pond by Moonlight | 216 | |
Sickness | ||
Haircut | ||
Listening to Plays | 225 | |
On the Road | ||
Well-meant Words | 238 | |
A Temple Lodging | 247 | |
The Art of Listening | ||
Cloak of Invisibility | 259 | |
Elegy | 270 | |
Chignon | 276 | |
The Religion of the Chinese | ||
A Beating | 282 | |
The Last Word in Beauty and Ugliness | ||
Footprints | 294 | |
Thus Friends Absent Speak | ||
My Four Hypothetical Enemies | 304 | |
The Call of the Ruins | 316 | |
The Countryside of the Past | ||
Today's Countryside | 321 | |
We Can't Bring Back the Past | ||
Waiting for a Flower's Name | 339 | |
Shanghai People | 350 | |
Goodwives | 362 | |
References | 369 |